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REVIEW article

Front. Neurorobot.
Volume 18 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2024.1395617
This article is part of the Research Topic Embodied Agents and Their Control View all articles

Brain-inspired Biomimetic Robot Control: A Review

Provisionally accepted
  • Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

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    Complex robotic systems, such as humanoid robot hands, soft robots, and walking robots, pose a challenging control problem due to their high dimensionality and heavy non-linearities.Conventional model-based feedback controllers demonstrate robustness and stability but struggle to cope with the escalating system design and tuning complexity accompanying larger dimensions.In contrast, data-driven methods such as artificial neural networks excel at representing highdimensional data but lack robustness, generalization, and real-time adaptiveness. In response to these challenges, researchers are directing their focus to biological paradigms, drawing inspiration from the remarkable control capabilities inherent in the human body. This has motivated the exploration of new control methods aimed at closely emulating the motor functions of the brain given the current insights in neuroscience. Recent investigation into these Brain-Inspired control techniques have yielded promising results, notably in tasks involving trajectory tracking and robot locomotion. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the foremost trends in biomimetic brain-inspired control methods to tackle the intricacies associated with controlling complex robotic systems.

    Keywords: Robotics, nonlinear, model-based, Learning, bio-inspired, Brain, Control, spiking

    Received: 04 Mar 2024; Accepted: 31 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Mompó Alepuz, Papageorgiou and Tolu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Adrià Mompó Alepuz, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

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